21.4.11

Brewhaha.

It’s been a while since my last obsession, surely I’m due?

What is it this time I hear you groan?

Tea.

I’ve always liked the idea of tea more than tea itself. Tea parties, tea pots, fancy pants tea blends… they are all very nice & appealing, but me being me, my daydreams are a far cry from reality. I’ve nobody to tea party with, I got rid of my disused teapot collection as our “kitchen” is way too small to cook in let alone display teapots I didn’t use & I’ve always been too lazy to properly brew loose leaves. Usually, when I have a cup of tea, it is steeped from a sad little tea bag & tripped out with milk & sugar. Recently though I have been happily dipping lovely little gauzy pyramids of tea into my cup. With a bit more room to expand, & dare I say it, a higher quality blend of tea, my usually daggy cuppa has gone & had itself a little makeover.

I’ve even been drinking it without milk. Without sugar. I don’t know if you would be able to pay me to drink a normal cup of tea from a regular old teabag without copious amounts of milk & sugar – I’ve tried it in the past & it’s not an experience I remember fondly… but, can you see where I am going here…? I think I am wanting to move even further up the tea appreciation scale. Past the little supermarket bought pyramids & onto those wonderfully exotic loose leaf blends I have so often admired, snuffled & ultimately never bought; if better tea bags produce such a markedly better cup of tea, than no tea bag at all, well, it should be bliss in a tea cup.

Enter the gadget. You know it’s not an obsession with me unless I have a chance to waste spend some money on it…

ingenuitea

The ingenuiTEA! I found it while lollygagging about on ThinkGeek, NEEDED to order it & now I am waiting. Waiting. Waiting. The wait has been made all the more painful by lots of lovely tea arriving from adore tea yesterday… what a TEAse! (I kill me.)

buddhastears

All this & not a thing to brew it in! Bec suggested putting some in pantyhose & sticking that in the cup… as truly retro as that would be, I am very sad (not really..) to say I’ve not a single pair to wear, let alone steep tea in….

rooibos

…so I wait, while regretting my hasty decision to de-teapot the kitchen.

toffee

Do you like tea? (I know this lady does, and this one…) Do you know very much about it? I was shamefully un-informed about the the hows & whys of tea before I stumbled into this tea class, if you’ve any interest at all you should check it out – you’ll be spouting (ha! spouting! Like a teapot!) interesting tea facts to everyone you know.

11 comments:

  1. I love tea, love it in a pot but I am not very adventruous, I like earl grey, lady grey and english breakfast.

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  2. I LOVE tea too, and I love your little obsessions.
    I'm really stuck on the T2 creme brulee, but always like to know a new good place xo

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  3. I would be interested to see how you go with it. I'm only a recent tea drinker too..in a bid to stay off the coffee. My supermarket favourites are Madura and Twinings in english breakfast and earl grey (the latter I'm sipping on right now).

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  4. I love, love, love tea and everything about it including teacups and teapots. I cannot pass my hutch without gazing at all my little vintage delights :)
    x

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  5. I hope no one really thinks I would do the pantyhose thing, I was ONLY KIDDING PEEPS!

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  6. I love tea! I had a friend who worked at an exotic tea place for a few years and I began to really get into it, plus get lots of new teas to try. Do you have a fine sieve? Boil water, pour over loose tea in a bowl, cover bowl with plate, let steep appropriate amount of time, pour water and tea through strainer into cup, careful not to burn yourself. That's it!
    Ooh, I saw jasmine pearls! The taste is very mild but the scent is heavenly! I'm excited to hear your favorites.
    Happy tea time!

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  7. Just ordered my new teapot this morning on Cathie's recommendation. Loooove tea!!

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  8. Bit of a tea addict here also! I love tea! I drink at least four cups a day and I would be lost without it. Not huge fan of herbals, but I like green and peppermint and roobos, but my favourite are caffinated!

    If you ever fancy catching up for a brew and a natter, I'd love to!

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  9. I love tea. I love the jasmine pearls you got..yum and any other teas that unfurl into beautiful flowers in your pot! I get most of mine from T2 cos it's not too far away.

    When you get adventurous you can start mixing a few together! Ooooh and my most favourite tea at the moment is one with rose buds and dried fruit in it!

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  10. I've missed your obsessions. And you have me intrigued with sticky date flavour!

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  11. hey what are those teas like?
    i need something new, I haven't made my chai blend for ages, just use teabag chai.
    let me know whenever you can. thanks Ms Vic ♥

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